Draco had shown her his scars, probably just to shut her up, but that wasn't the point. He'd trusted her with that. So it was only fair that she repay that trust.

Walking across the hall to the blondes' room, Mia knocked on the door.

*Tap-TapTap*

They- or rather she had come up with it so the older boy would know it was her. He seemed to answer quicker that way. Though it was probably helped by the fact Lucius was away on business. Luckily that also meant that he hadn't 'dealt with him later' yet. Hopefully he wasn't going to return in the next few weeks whilst she wouldn't be there.

"Draco?" She called quietly, after several seconds of waiting. He didn't normally take this long. What was he doing? But before she could come up with strange or scary scenarios in her head, the door opened, revealing the blonde stood, panting slightly and his shirt on backwards. He looked more annoyed than anything though. That was better than him being upset atleast.

"Wanna tell me what you're doing?" She questioned, stepping past him and into the dark room, not bothering to be invited in. He didn't answer at first, and it took all of Mia's will power not to ask the question five more times as she went and sat on the bed. Instead she settled for, "Draco?" Which managed to get his attention.

"Nothing" he said, sitting beside her, though after the look she gave him, which was very similar to 'don't give me that crap', he started talking again. "Just practising some magic" It was obvious he was attempting to be casual, like it was a dull spell he had been trying, but he wasn't fooling her.

"Show me" She instructed, and was honestly surprised when he didn't move. What was he hiding from her? Frowning she observed him and the bedroom. The room itself looked exactly the same from what she could remember. Well, except for the wand dropped on the floor infront of the mirror, and the mirror itself looked like it'd been pulled several feet away from the wall to give someone a better view of themselves. Looking back over at the blonde she once again noticed his backward shirt, and after several seconds managed to put two and two together,

"What were you doing Draco?" She asked again, slight worry evident in her voice.

That managed to do the trick though, as he pulled his shirt off again, his chest becoming a regular sight for her, one she really didn't mind, and crossed his arms.

"It's nothing bad, don't worry-" He added as the look on Mia's face turned to panic. How was she not meant to worry when it involved his back? "I was just trying to learn a concealment charm. It was tricky hiding it last year with quidditch practice." Ok, so that would explain it, and that would also explain the annoyed look he had been wearing if he couldn't get it to work too well. Then again, Mia knew all too well how hard a charm it was.

"I can help" she said, moving behind him on the bed and taking her phoenix tail feather wand out of her back pocket. It was still a shocking site, but luckily non of the cuts were fresh. Hopefully it'd stay that way, though she highly doubted it. "Stay still" she instructed,, not completely sure that it would work for his whole back. She was only used to covering a small section. Crossing her fingers and hoping for the best, Mia pointed her wand at the worst section of the scars and muttered, "Concelio", a small smile spreading over her face as most of he marks lessened, almost all of them disappearing, leaving marble smooth white skin infront of her. "It'll only last for a day or so, but I can redo it tomorrow if you like" Draco barely let her finish the sentence as he leapt off the bed and to the mirror, observing his back intently.

"How?" he asked, a mixture of amazement and confusion filling his voice, "How did you learn that?" well, it wasn't actually that tough a spell to do, keeping it going long enough to work was the hard part. And it probably helped that Tonks- a qualified aura had helped her learn it,

"Tonks taught me, she had too…" well, it was now or never, "Look," she whispered, holding out her left arm, palm up, and pointing her wand at her wrist. After several seconds black line started to appear, eventually tuning into a skull with a snake coming out of it. "They think Bellatrix gave it to me when I was born, kind of like to brand me for life. But they aren't sure. It's safer if I keep it hidden apparently". Glancing up at Draco, Mia's fears were confirmed by a look of shock and disgust on his face. Pointing her wand back at her wrist, and quickly muttering the concealment charm, the younger girl stood up off the bed and rushed to the door. Ofcourse he'd be disgusted, why had she ever thought otherwise? Scars on his back from Lucius were nothing like the dark mark from your mother.

Maybe she could leave for the Weasley's early, it was unlikely they'd complain if she turned up now. Reaching for the door handle, Mia sighed as she tried to come up with a way to explain why she would there earlier. Only she wouldn't need to. The blonde had taken hold of her wrist, her left wrist Infact, and was beginning to pull her away from the door. She waited until they were both back on the bed again, before crossing her legs and looking over at him, a huge question mark on her face.

"I didn't mean to look like that, I was just caught off guard. Like you were when you first saw my back." Ok, so that was true, but she'd atleast tried to hide her reaction, Draco had looked out right disgusted. As if reading her mind he answered this though, "It wasn't directed at you, it was that someone's done that to you already" He frowned as if thinking over what he was saying, but didn't bother to elaborate further. The fact that he'd said 'already' worried Mia slightly though, it seemed like he was saying that should happen, but not yet. That couldn't be right, right?

Frowning herself, the darker haired girl stood up and walked to do the door before pausing,

"You coming swimming?"

A/N: Sorry it's taken me so long to get a new chapter up, revision and all that bleugh. Please review Z-Nugget xx